“A Scene of Perfect Desolation” By 1700, Portland and the islands in the harbor were largely deserted. The Ango-Abenaki Wars raged on and off and any English settlers who straggled back to the area were driven off again. Fort Loyal, at the foot of what is now India Street, built to defend the area, …
The New World Wasn’t New “Between 1500 and 1800, roughly two and a half million Europeans moved to the Americas… and as many as 50 million Native Americans died, chiefly of disease…” Jill Lepore Peaks Island was inhabited when Italian explorer Verrazzano sailed up what is now the Maine coast in 1524. The islands …